The Daily Beast • October 20th, 2019 Podcaster Who Exposed Neo-Nazis Now Has Target on His Back Daniel Harper is the co-host of what might be the most important podcast countering the white nationalist movement today. Now, neo-Nazis have put a target on his back.
The Daily Beast • September 13th, 2019 Wannabe Serial Killer Taunted Cops With Zodiac-Like Letters Detective Logan Hough got the call at about 9 a.m. on a sweltering late-August day in North Florida. Someone at the court clerk’s office had opened a letter that he should see right away.
The Daily Beast • September 4th, 2019 Schools Go to FBI After Hate Site Uses Jewish Students Pics The FBI has been contacted by officials at two universities after photos of hundreds of Jewish students and staff appeared on a website run by a white nationalist who openly advocates for “exterminating Jews and those who serve them.”
The Daily Beast • June 21st, 2019 Border Vigilante Charged With Fraud for Allegedly Pocketing Cash for Cancer-Stricken Kid Authorities in Oklahoma have charged border vigilante Jim Benvie with fraud after The Daily Beast reported he was suspected of running a child-cancer charity scam there.
The Daily Beast • June 11th, 2019 Twitter Suspends Journalist for Book About the Far Right Twitter suspended the account of David Neiwert, a reporter for Daily Kos and author of the book Alt-America, on Tuesday, making him the latest journalist covering white supremacists and the far right to be hit with a temporary ban.
The Daily Beast • May 22nd, 2019 Border Vigilante Was Accused of Running Child-Cancer Charity Scam Court documents reviewed by The Daily Beast raise serious questions about Benvie’s background in fundraising. He was arrested in an incident in which police said he was fraudulently claiming to be collecting cash for a child with cancer and was allegedly in possession of a stolen rental truck, according to the court records.
Southern Poverty Law Center • March 22nd, 2019 The Infowars Crowd Finds Common Cause With New Zealand Terrorist In the aftermath of the massacre, Hatewatch reviewed about nine hours of programming from Infowars, the far-right conspiracy theory platform founded by Alex Jones, and found its hosts and guests cited multiple points of agreement with the accused killer’s racist manifesto.
Southern Poverty Law Center • January 24th, 2019 An Alt-Right Enforcer's Rallying Cry: 'No More Safe Spaces' As he was laid up in a hospital room in 2017, oxygen tube up his nose, gown wrapped around his torso, recovering from being stabbed nine times, Antonio Foreman found it in himself to recite the neo-Nazi mantra known as the 14 words.
Southern Poverty Law Center • November 15th, 2018 Caravan paranoia is tearing the border militia movement apart They’ve wound themselves up to believe all kinds of rumors about the migrant caravan that’s been making its way north through Mexico. Rumors that it’s filled not just with Central Americans seeking asylum but with people from Venezuela, Nigeria and Syria — even Islamic militants. Rumors that caravan members were secretly trained by the United Nations. Rumors that it’s funded by Jewish billionaire George Soros. Rumors that MS-13 is involved. Rumors of cartels. Rumors of violence. Rumors of death.
Southern Poverty Law Center • June 12th, 2018 Oath Keepers boss Stewart Rhodes goes all-in on a conspiracy theory too wild for even Alex Jones Oath Keepers president Stewart Rhodes has thrown his weight behind a conspiracy theorist who’s been nicknamed “Screwy Louie” by other members of the militia movement and who's made allegations that are too wild even for the king of conspiracy theories, Alex Jones.
Buzzfeed News • June 13th, 2016 Meet The Matriarch Of The Arm-Everyone Movement Best known for her support of an Oregon militia's armed standoff against the federal government, Michele Fiore is now trying to become part of that government. Even if she loses her bid for Congress, this literal calendar girl for the guns-for-everyone movement is the face of a political fringe that is slowly pushing itself towards the mainstream.
Talking Points Memo • August 10th, 2012 Two American Terror Cases, One Brand Of Hate The Hammerskins are still unleashing havoc in America. Two domestic terrorism investigations this year have been linked to the group, with the latest and most violent example coming on Sunday when a relatively new member walked into a Sikh temple in Wisconsin and opened fire on worshipers there.
Talking Points Memo • June 21st, 2012 Prosecutors Turned Down Cases Against Arizona Neo-Nazi JT Ready Prior To Massacre Federal prosecutors had at least two chances to go after white supremacist militia leader JT Ready in the months before he went on a rampage in an Arizona suburb, killing four others and then himself. Yet Ready was not arrested or charged with a crime.
Talking Points Memo • May 21st, 2012 Emails Show How Hawaii Stiffed Arizona Secretary Of State's Birther Investigation One of the more amusing things revealed last week when Arizona’s secretary of state came out as birther curious was that Hawaii officials just simply don’t believe he’s qualified to investigate Barack Obama’s birth certificate. Sure, Ken Bennett says he’s the man in charge of deciding whether President Obama is eligible to be on Arizona’s ballot in November, but the response from people in Hawaii’s government has been: Prove it.
Talking Points Memo • May 18th, 2012 Arizona Goes Birther: Secretary Of State Says It's 'Possible' Obama Won't Be On Ballot The man in charge of running Arizona’s elections has gone to the birthers. Secretary of State Ken Bennett now says he’s not convinced Barack Obama was really born in the United States and so he is threatening to keep the president off the ballot in November.
Talking Points Memo • March 31st, 2012 A Guide To The Night George Zimmerman Killed Trayvon Martin To try to more clearly present what actually happened on the night of Feb. 26 in Sanford, Fla., TPM has put together a guide to the events that reportedly took place before, during and immediately after the killing.
Talking Points Memo • March 20th, 2012 Extremists Go To 'War' In The Arizona Desert Early last year, a young neo-Nazi called his girlfriend from a jail cell in Phoenix. She was upset. She was confused. She wanted to know why FBI agents were in her living room saying they caught him making pipe bombs and stockpiling other explosives.
Talking Points Memo • January 26th, 2012 Mayor Seems To Contradict Gov. Brewer's Story On Obama Run-In The portrayal of a calm, friendly president seems to at least partly contradict what Brewer has said about the encounter in numerous interviews since Wednesday afternoon. She described the president as “tense” and said he walked away from her while she was in mid-sentence. She told a Phoenix television station she felt “a little bit threatened” by the encounter.
Talking Points Memo • January 10th, 2012 How The Feds Brought Down Arizona's Suspected White Supremacist 'Serial' Bombing Brothers In a small trailer park in Catoosa, Okla., in 2005, an aging white supremacist made a startling claim to a woman he had met only earlier that day. He told her he was a serial bomber.
San Diego Union-Tribune • March 20th, 2011 Couple details James Ray's self-help operation Josh and Megan Fredrickson were true believers in James Arthur Ray, drawn almost instantly to the promise of wealth and well-being the self-help guru offered to anyone willing to listen and pay.